Holes

you are here. You’re responsible for yourself. You messed up your life, and it’s up to you to fix it. No one else is going to do ...

Chapter 19 He was awakened one night by a strange noise. At first he thought it might have been some kind of animal, and it frig ...

Chapter 13 All too soon Stanley was back out on the lake, sticking his shovel into the dirt. X-Ray was right: the third hole was ...

Magnet was standing at ground level, holding a sack of seeds. He popped a handful into his mouth, chewed, and swallowed, shells ...

felt something hard and metallic. He pulled it out. It was a gold tube, about as long and as wide as the second finger on his ri ...

“Hello, Mr. Sir,” said X-Ray. “Back so soon?” “It seems like you were just here,” said Armpit. “Time flies when you’re having fu ...

and looked at the tube again. One by one, the other boys dropped their shovels and came to look. “It looks like an old shotgun s ...

felt good to sit down on a comfortable seat for a change. And as the truck bounced along the dirt, he was able to appreciate the ...

Chapter 14 That night, as Stanley lay on his scratchy and smelly cot, he tried to figure out what he could have done differently ...

Chapter 20 It felt good to walk in the shade of the two oak trees. Stanley wondered if this was how a condemned man felt on his ...

think I might have found something!” The boys all followed Mr. Pendanski as he walked over to X-Ray’s hole. Stanley could see th ...

me, please?” She pointed to a door. Stanley looked at the door, then at the Warden, then back at the door. He slowly walked towa ...

stepped out of the truck, he didn’t even know the Warden was a woman. He nervously went toward her. “Mr. Pendanski and I have be ...

clutched his face with both hands. He let himself fall over, rolling off the hearth and onto the rug. The Warden spoke softly. “ ...

Chapter 15 Mr. Pendanski filled the canteens. The Warden got a pitchfork out of the back of the pickup. She poked it through X-R ...

Chapter 21 It was a long walk back to his hole. Stanley looked out through the haze of heat and dirt at the other boys, lowering ...

boys’ shoulders, and sticking her pitchfork through the dirt piles. “You’re doing fine, just fine,” she told Stanley. After a wh ...

“Hey, Caveman!” called Armpit. “You’re still alive.” “What’d the Warden say?” asked X-Ray. “What’d you tell her?” asked Magnet. ...

Chapter 16 As Stanley entered the Wreck Room, he could hear X-Ray’s voice from all the way across the room. “See what I’m saying ...

Chapter 22 Stanley was the first one finished. He spat in his hole, then showered and changed into his cleaner set of clothes. I ...